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Hutchinson Bottle Manufacturers

The following June 1892
National Bottlers’ Gazette
advertisement detailed the Hutchinson
bottle style numbers, dimensions, and capacities available from American
Glass Works, Limited of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a major industry bottle
manufacturer:

The
accompanying advertising copy specified:

Such as BEERS, SODAS, MINERALS, and APOLLINARIS
BOTTLES, which we make in GREEN, RUBY, IMPORTED GREEN, and FLINT COLORS.We manufacture bottles for the Bottle Seal, also for the
Lightning and Hutchinson Stoppers, and will furnish bottles and stoppers
at regular prices.We use
NATURAL GAS in all departments, which enables us to anneal the ware
better and more uniform than where the old system of coal is used.We have a large selection of Stock Moulds, which are provided
with plain plates, upon which we can insert your name and address at a
very slight cost, thus saving you the cost of a mould.We have railroad connections at our works with all the principal
roads in the country, which enables us to make prompt shipments at all
times…

DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT STYLES OF STOCK MOULDS.

All are so arranged that we can put on any name and
address desired.We make
one size stopper holes only unless otherwise ordered.No leakers.

Five years later, an American Glass Works
advertisement in the December 15, 1897 issue of
The Western Bottler
pictured the same Hutchinson bottles (with
Style 104 specified as “FURNISHED FOR SEALS”):

The accompanying advertising copy proclaimed:

Manufacturers of all kinds of High Pressure bottles
for steaming and carbonating purposes and for all kinds of stoppers.Special attention paid to private and lettered ware.Natural gas used in all departments.Colors, light Green, light and dark Amber, Bohemian Green and ‘Pittsburg’ Flint.Unsurpassed shipping facilities.First-class goods, moderate prices.

Another major industry supplier of
Hutchinson
bottles was the North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company (North Baltimore,
Ohio 1888-1895; Albany, Indiana 1895-1900; Terre Haute, Indiana post
1900).Here’s an N.B.B.G.Co.
advertisement from the same December 15, 1897 issue of
The Western Bottler.Note they did not charge extra
for designing private moulds:

A related
news item in the same issue of The Western Bottler mentioned:

The North Baltimore Bottle Glass Co. of Albany,
Indiana, has again increased the capacity of its large furnaces during
the annual summer shut down, making its product the largest in the West.Nothing but beer and soda water bottles are made in this plant,
and the quantity of the ware is of the best.Natural gas, as fuel, is used throughout the plant, and its use
accounts for the high degree of perfection reached in tempering or
annealing its bottles.

An
1884 National Bottlers’
Gazette advertisement placed by the Wisconsin Glass Company
in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin illustrated quart, 1 ½ pint, and half
pint Hutchinson
bottles they were manufacturing.Note “Name and address blown into bottle,” and “Private Moulds a
specialty:”

An 1887
National Bottlers’ Gazette
advertisement by Whitney Glass Works (59 Murray St., New York City, and
227 South Front St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) proclaimed they were
the “Largest Manufacturers of Bottle Ware in the United States…Our
factories are all now at work.To insure having bottles on hand for summer use, send orders
early.The best bottles are
made in cold weather…The following cuts represent sizes and styles of a
few of our stock moulds, from which we can furnish bottles with the name
and address at a small additional cost, on orders of 5 gross and
upwards.”Here are the Hutchinson bottles illustrated in their
advertisement (note the backwards Ns in the embossing on the quart; so
much for quality control!):

Discussion of Hutchinson bottle manufacturing would not be complete
without mention of the Illinois Glass Company in Alton, Illinois.A team of advanced collector specialists and archaeologists is
doing extensive research and will be providing more information about
this prolific manufacturer of Hutchinson bottles.
Here is a
sample page from the 1911
Illinois Glass Company catalog (as reprinted in H. E. Putnam’s booklet
Bottle Identification
in 1965) showing the most common Hutchinson bottles this firm produced.These Hutchinsons are often found with maker’s marks specifying “I.G.Co.”
plus year codes (such as ’01, ’02, ’03, etc.) and Mould numbers (11, 22,
33, etc.) on the back of the bottles, close to the base.Note that in the illustrated grouping, all of these mould styles
were available with Hutchinson
stoppers except for No. 44 which was only furnished for bottles
utilizing corks, Lightning Stoppers, or Baltimore Loop Seals: